SocialMedia - Grant Winney

8 Results tagged on "SocialMedia":

Oct 22, 2019

StackOverboard (how to ruin 10 years of goodwill and alienate your users)

Last year, SE decided that the community is not friendly enough and introduced a single network-wide CoC. Then a few weeks ago, they announced a change that advocates a specific ideology and compels the speech of every contributor on their network. Here's a brief rehash and my own thoughts....

aws lambda golang SocialMedia programming twitter aws

May 28, 2018

My first experience with AWS Lambda (by taming Twitter)

I've been wondering if I can tame Twitter a bit by cleaning up my timeline. Using AWS Lambda and the Ephemeral Go package, I think I've found a good start....

twitter SocialMedia

Apr 13, 2018

Twitter... bring on the chaos. Or not.

Everything that's happened with Facebook recently has me thinking a lot about social media in general - and the social media I use most, Twitter. What value does it bring me, and what are the hidden cost? And do the benefits outweigh those costs?...

facebook privacy SocialMedia

Apr 02, 2018

15 reasons I dumped Facebook for good

I've decided to pull the plug (after downloading my data and subscribing to feeds for the blogs of anyone I followed), but wanted to document some of the many stories that have come out over the years... in case I ever get the itch to sign up again....

api twitter programming SocialMedia 15 APIs in 15 Days

Dec 15, 2017

Accessing tweets, friends, lists, and more with the Twitter API

To kick off my 15 APIs in 15 Days challenge, let's check out the Twitter API, how to use it and what it has to offer. Their API allows you to access tweets, users who tweet, and metadata associated with tweets, as well as other actions like manipulating lists....

chrome twitter browser extension SocialMedia programming

Nov 15, 2017

Sick of all the noise on Twitter? I was too. So I wrote a Chrome extension to hide it.

A lot of sites load extra content along the top and in sidebars, to keep you on the site longer. It'd be trivial for Twitter to hide trends or who to follow, but there's no incentive to do it. I don't need the distractions though, so I wrote a Chrome extension to remove them!...

motivation SocialMedia

Aug 05, 2017

Staying motivated to maintain an online presence

Sometimes when I'm feeling unmotivated or overwhelmed, or that continuing to learn while raising young kids is more than I can balance, the universe tosses a bunch of motivational stuff in my lap, like this......

SocialMedia

Jul 03, 2017

The Culture of Likes and Hearts and Faves

I rejoined Facebook a couple weeks ago after a long hiatus, and though I haven't posted much yet, it's been...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.